Image:The Beatles - Butcher Cover.jpg

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The original MONO album cover of Yesterday and Today.

[edit] Fair use in Yesterday and Today

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the album in any way;
2. Copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the sleeve artwork on another record;
3. The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist, The Beatles;
4. This album was infamous for the controversy caused by this, its original "butcher cover". This image is needed to illustrate the image to which people were reacting, as discussed in the article;

[edit] Fair use in Robert Whitaker (photographer)

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the photograph in any way;
2. Copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the photograph;
3. The image is significant because it depicts a famous artist, The Beatles;
4. The image is significant because it is perhaps the most famous work of Robert Whitaker (photographer);
5. This image is infamous for the controversy caused by it. It needs to be shown in order to illustrate the image to which people were reacting, as discussed in the article;

[edit] Source

1. Derived from a digital capture (scan/photo) of the album/CD cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.

[edit] Licensing

This image is of a cover of an audio recording, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the album or the artist(s) which produced the recording or cover artwork in question. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of such covers solely to illustrate the audio recording in question, on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For an example fair use rationale, see here.

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